Depending on the precise question asked, national surveys show both support for and opposition to the idea of road pricing.
The unseen spanner in the works is the idea of main road priority.
Sprint's riffed about the possibility of migrating to LTE in the past -- as has its 4G partner, Clearwire -- so it's no big surprise to hear CEO Dan Hesse tell the Financial Times today that he's still open to the idea down the road, possibly side-by-side with the company's existing WiMAX deployment thanks to its deep spectrum holdings.
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In a recent survey 84% of respondents supported the idea of a link road between Hastings and Bexhill to relieve congestion.
"Road pricing as an idea has got some merit, " he said.
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If it was Mama who did her best to keep me from cooking, it was Daddy who gave me the idea that a foot in the road was not a bad place for a foot to be.
If designers have only their drawings or photographs of a real prototype to show, it will hopefully give backers a better idea of how far down the road the project is and whether the project owner really has the skill to pull it off.
"Whether it is an idea that will improve transport on one road junction in the city or a scheme that encompasses the whole area, we want to hear it, " he said.
Men seem to pine after the idea of finding someone to love on the road while women seem headstrong on making it happen.
To them, not using social networks at the office (or, just as likely, on the road) would be as antiquated an idea as not using smartphones.
Currently the NY Department of Health is piloting such a system, looking solely at pertussis (whooping cough), with the idea being to expand to other conditions down the road.
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"If you look at the potential road to the final...the idea of beating Germany is romantic, and it's an achievable goal which we are confident we can do, we are not wayward underdogs, " said James.
Any ambient starlight or moonglow is diffused by heavy cloud, and the road is simply too twisty to get any solid idea of direction.
The idea that using borrowed money to buy assets is the smart road to riches might lose currency, changing attitudes to home ownership as well as to parts of the finance sector such as private equity.
Even as he built the DVD business that toppled Blockbuster, Hastings was guided by the big idea that mailing people DVDs was a mere way station on the road to streaming video.
Recreational vehicle enthusiasts love to be able to bring their favorite mod cons with them on their annual road trips, so German RV manufacturer Volkner Mobile's idea to develop a motor home capable of storing an entire car in its underbelly is sure to be popular with those that can afford the undoubtedly high pricetag.
The road-car manufacturers in F1 have made it clear they are opposed to this idea.
The idea was to tempt people into paying some tax now in return for better treatment down the road.
She might have seen him every single day on the road between her village and Madadeni or Dannhauser, but she would have had no idea who he was, not even if he had happened to stroll into their dilapidated shack one day and introduce himself.
The idea of using light boxes came to him, in what admiring critics have liked to celebrate as a road-to-Damascus flash, on a bus trip in Spain in 1977.
To endow this idea with more political weight, some diplomats think that Georgia might be given the equivalent of the European road maps being followed by Balkan countries, though without (for now) a promise of membership at the end.
But many commuters and motorists said they did not really see the point of the scheme and some drivers reckoned the idea of having one route in and out restricts traffic flow and does not allow for accidents or other road closures.
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Port Talbot Town tried the idea on Saturday afternoon for their game against Bala Town at the 6, 000-seat stadium at Victoria Road.
With that idea in mind, I recommend two books about the essential role of price in capitalism: Lessons from a Road Warrior: How I fell off a horse, earned 15 million air miles, got sand in my shoes and learned how to invest by John Rutledge and The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts.
It is hard to get a full idea of the size of the mosque, the equivalent of five football fields, even as you drive along the road that links Abu Dhabi to Dubai.
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